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"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
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"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."
"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
"Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience....Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.And found you ...Who wouldn't be afraid of this?"
"The heresy of an age of reason. I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong."
"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."
"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
Explore more quotes by Max Beerbohm
"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal."
"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."
"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."
"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people."
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